Those three factors are much more important than 25" vs 35" or brand vs brand I agree that all of those are good ways to kill drives, but in my experience, at certain points in time there are drives you should buy, and drives you shouldn't touch with a 100ft pole I had a vast number of IBM/HGST drives fail back in the day The Myth Of The 35" vs 25" HDD 25" drives are smaller, making the data information more susceptible to failure Not true While it is true that initial production of 25" drives were problematic, so were 35" drives when they were initially released Remember the IBM RAMAC series? Two 25", 300GB, 10,000 RPM enterprise drives in a suitable RAID will outperform one 600GB, 35", 15,000 RPM drive At the same time,
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